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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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The Value of Data Mining in Music Education Research and Some Findings from Its Application to a Study of Instrumental Learning during Childhood
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Faulkner, Robert; Davidson, Jane W.; McPherson, Gary E. – International Journal of Music Education, 2010
The use of data mining for the analysis of data collected in natural settings is increasingly recognized as a legitimate mode of enquiry. This rule-inductive paradigm is an effective means of discovering relationships within large datasets--especially in research that has limited experimental design--and for the subsequent formulation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Processing, Pattern Recognition, Data Analysis
The Use of Gesture Techniques in Children's Singing
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Liao, Mei-Ying; Davidson, Jane W. – International Journal of Music Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to begin to explore the link of gesture and voice when teaching children and to examine how the children used these gestures in singing. Semi-structured interviewing techniques and observation were used extensively to collect information from the respondents. Five children were asked to participate in this preliminary…
Descriptors: Singing, Teaching Methods, Interviews, Student Attitudes